Kirkcudbright Primary School, KIRKCUDBRIGHT
Kirkcudbright Primary School is a primary school for pupils in Kirkcudbright.
- Attendance
- 94.3%
Data last updated 25 Oct 2026
Kirkcudbright Primary School in detail
School in Scotland
Kirkcudbright Primary School is a local authority school in Scotland. Scottish schools are inspected by Education Scotland rather than Ofsted, and Scotland does not publish school-by-school exam league tables.
Kirkcudbright Primary School has a pre-school (nursery) class.
In the 2025 pupil census it had 223 pupils, an average class size of 24.8 and 18.3 pupils per teacher.
31% of P6-P7 pupils are registered for free school meals, 39% of pupils have an additional support need recorded and 5% speak English as an additional language.
Attendance was 94.3% in 2024/25, and 14.5% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
The 2026 school estate survey rated its buildings' condition as good (A) and their suitability for teaching as good (A); the school was 87% full.
Getting there
There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Kirkcudbright Primary School.
12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is School (o/s 33), 70 metres away.
Sources: Scottish Government school statistics: pupil census, attendance and absence, school estate, leaver destinations (OGL); NaPTAN (Department for Transport)
Key Information
Scottish GovernmentInspection
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kirkcudbright Primary School in September 2024.
- 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessmentgood
- 3.2 Raising attainment and achievementsatisfactory
HMIE grades on a six-point scale: unsatisfactory, weak, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent.
Source: HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland), Open Government Licence.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Special Measures
Keep up with Kirkcudbright Primary School
Getting There
Bus Stops
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 1
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 0
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Questions parents ask about Kirkcudbright Primary School
When was Kirkcudbright Primary School last inspected?
HM Inspectorate of Education (Education Scotland) last published an inspection of Kirkcudbright Primary School in September 2024. Inspectors evaluated learning, teaching and assessment as good and raising attainment and achievement as satisfactory, on a six-point scale from unsatisfactory to excellent.
What is the catchment area for Kirkcudbright Primary School?
Scottish schools have catchment (zoned) areas, and Kirkcudbright Primary School is no exception: children living in its zone are normally given a place there automatically. Families who want a different school make a placing request to Dumfries & Galloway. Dumfries & Galloway publishes the zone boundary.
How do I apply to Kirkcudbright Primary School?
If you live in Kirkcudbright Primary School's catchment zone your child is normally allocated a place automatically, and Dumfries & Galloway will write to you. To ask for a place here from outside the zone, make a placing request to Dumfries & Galloway - requests usually open in November and close in mid-March for the following August.
How many road collisions happen near Kirkcudbright Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 1 road collision in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Dumfries & Galloway is 1 (the median across 109 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Kirkcudbright Primary School?
Kirkcudbright Primary School is at St Mary's Wynd, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, DG6 4JT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)